The sky darkened. As the sun lost its light, even the blue sky became pitch-black. Only specks of starlight remained, causing the earth to seem blurry and black.
This change and the powerful ripples spreading out from the mountain where Fang Cang Lan was were like a bright flame in the darkness. The people in Southern Swamp Island could sense it incredibly clearly.
The pavilion at the top of the mountain no longer existed. It had been reduced to ruins, and there was a deep crater in the ground. There were even waves of cold air that were faintly discernible in the surroundings, spreading in all directions.
Fang Cang Lan sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at Su Ming with a happy smile on her face.
Su Ming took a few steps forward and sat down before Fang Cang Lan. His gaze fell on the woman's face, and he had a vague feeling that he had returned to the past. However, the darkness around him caused his memories to be tainted with dust.
"It's been a long time," Su Ming said softly after a long while.
"Not too long ago." Fang Cng Lan smiled. She combed her hair and put away the jade bone in her hand.
Su Ming stared at Fang Cang Lan. When he saw the joy in her eyes and the face in his memories, he suddenly did not know what to say. In the darkness, on Southern Swamp Island, which was located in the depths of the sea, the scenes from the past appeared before Su Ming's eyes.
Time trickled by, and a long time seemed to have passed by. The smile on Fang Cang Lan's face gradually disappeared and turned into calmness. She sighed in her heart and gradually lowered her head. Just like Su Ming, she fell silent.
"How is Han Mountain City?" Su Ming asked softly.
"He's gone." Fang Cng Lan closed her eyes and murmured.
"Your tribe …"
"They've already dispersed." Fang Cang Lan opened her eyes and looked at Su Ming's face that she could not forget even after twenty years. Twenty years was not a long time, but it was not a short time either. Besides, too many things had happened during these twenty years.
The two of them fell silent once more. In the darkness, it was as if they had nothing in common to say.
"Zi Yan told me about your experiences over the past few years …" After some time, Su Ming broke the silence.
"Senior Sister Ziyan has sacrificed a lot for me, but I have no way to repay you," Fang Cng Lan said softly as she bit her lower lip.
"So you set up that trap just now to kill that person called Yun Lai?" Su Ming stared at the seemingly frail woman before him. It was just as he had seen her in the past. There was a tenacity hidden under that frail exterior.
"It's a pity that it's already useless. I can't use it anymore." Fang Cang Lan lowered her head and looked at her hands. Suddenly, she lifted her head and her sparkling eyes fell on Su Ming's face.
"If I didn't know about other people's past divine abilities and didn't know about your experiences in the past twenty years, would we have more topics to talk about?"
Su Ming opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he chose to remain silent. The woman's affection towards him had existed in the past, and it was still there now, but Su Ming did not know how to accept it. In fact, in his heart, his impression of Fang Cang Lan was still the same as in the past.
"We met in Han Mountain City."
"We entered Freezing Sky Clan together."
"Sima Xin's feelings for me have already been severed back then. I thank you for this. You … don't owe me anything." Fang Cng Lan spoke softly. Her gentle voice lingered in the surroundings. She gave off the same feeling as she did, gentle and delicate.
"We're friends," Su Ming said softly when he heard Fang Cang Lan's words.
"Friends … We're friends," Fang Cng Lan mumbled. A smile appeared on her face once again. However, that smile was very different from the one she had when the two of them acknowledged each other.
That smile was not one of joy, but one that contained a hint of anguish.
"I already know why you came here …"
"Either take me with you, or … ignore me." Fang Cng Lan closed her eyes once again.
Su Ming fell silent.
"If you won't take me with you, then why did you come? Wouldn't it be better if you let me immerse myself in my own world? Su Ming … leave! "Fang Cng Lan still had her eyes closed, but there was a resolute tone to her soft words.
"I can't take you with me, but I can kill the person who forced you against your will." Su Ming looked at Fang Cng Lan and spoke in a low voice.
"There's no need. Why wouldn't I want to? If you don't want to take me with you, then I need to choose a way to survive." Fang Cng Lan's face was calm. Her words were still as gentle as ever, but there was a hint of grief within that gentleness. Su Ming could feel it.
Su Ming remained silent for a moment, then cast a complicated look at Fang Cng Lan before he stood up quietly and walked into the distance.
He could not accept Fang Cng Lan. It was not that the girl was not outstanding enough, but Su Ming himself. He did not want to have too many attachments. Love had been buried in Dark Mountain all those years ago, and the words and actions of the girls when they were gambling on stones in the World of Nine Yin had allowed him to see through many things.
"I'm really envious of Bai Su in the past … I want to know, Su Ming, over the years, which girl is the most unforgettable to you?" Fang Cng Lan's gentle voice came from behind Su Ming.
Su Ming's footsteps came to a halt. Faces appeared before his eyes. Some of them were clear, some were indistinct, but eventually, all of them disappeared one by one. There was none … If there was anyone, then perhaps it was the girl called Bai Ling who had made Su Ming's heart race when he was still a teenager, and she was someone he could not forget even now.
However, that was already in the past.
"You're a heartless person … Su Ming …" Fang Cng Lan seemed to have guessed what Su Ming was thinking, and she whispered softly behind him.
'Perhaps,' Su Ming said quietly in his heart. Besides Bai Ling, there were two other girls who left the deepest impression on him. One of them was Bai Su, and the other was Tian Lan Meng.
However, Bai Su did not pick up the path of return Su Ming had given her. Tian Lan Meng's silence in the World of Nine Yin with her head lowered and avoiding his gaze caused this deep impression to gradually turn normal.
When Su Ming left and Fang Cng Lan was the only one left on the mountain, she sat there quietly and opened her eyes. Tears fell from her eyes, causing the world before her to become a blur.
"I can see people's pasts, but I can't see my own future …"
She mumbled softly, and more tears fell from her eyes in anguish. The person she had never been able to forget over the past twenty years had appeared on this day, and his ending was the same as all those years ago. Not much had changed.
"Perhaps forgetting him is the best choice." Fang Cng Lan lowered her head, but the instant she did so, a person appeared on the mountain in the distance.
It was a man dressed in a long robe. He had no hair, and as he stood there, his eyes shone with a dark light. His entire person was filled with a strange and evil presence, as if he had fused together with the mountain under his feet.
He looked at Fang Cng Lan and the deep pit in the ruins around her coldly and walked towards her.
His body was like an illusion, and as he walked towards her, distortions appeared in the air until he was 100 feet away from Fang Cng Lan.
"This place was prepared for me, right?" That man was naturally Zi Yan's Yun Lai. Once he swept his gaze across the area, he looked towards the spot where the sun had originally been in the sky, and his pupils shrank.
Fang Cng Lan lifted her head and looked at Yun Lai coldly. She did not speak.
"The tower that previously existed in this place and the ripples of the Rune in it should have stopped me for a moment after I was trapped inside," Yun Lai said calmly, his gaze falling on the deep pit.
"Then I walked out of the tower and stepped into another Rune. This Rune can freeze people, and even with my level of cultivation, I would be frozen for an instant." A hint of admiration appeared on Yun Lai's face, and he took a few more steps forward.
"After that, it will be the ninety-nine waves of sword Qi from this mountain. As it fills the air, I will not be able to notice the true killing intent descending from the sky." Yun Lai walked until he was nine feet away from Fang Cng Lan, and his gaze fell on her.
"I believe that you will continue to use other methods until you kill me. Not bad, not bad indeed! As expected of the woman I, Yun Lai, have taken a liking to. Such cunning, such forbearance, but that b * tch Zi Yan's plan should be part of this as well. "Yun Lai suddenly smiled.
"Honestly, I really don't understand. Where does your hatred towards me come from? If it wasn't for me all those years ago, you and that b * tch Zi Yan would have ended up in a very wretched state. If it wasn't for me, you would have become a vengeful spirit by now.
"All you need to do is become my concubine. This is a trade, so where is your hatred coming from? "The strong preys on the weak, this is the law of the world. If you want to survive and receive the protection of the strong, how can you not make a choice?
"And I treat you differently compared to others. If you don't want to, I won't force you. A few years have passed since then, have I ever forced you in the slightest?" Yun Lai shook his head and spoke slowly.
"Why do you have to ask a question you already know the answer to? What you want is my cultivation method and Divine Ability, and I've also seen your memories before, the memories from before and after you seemed to have coincidentally met me and my senior sister.
"Over the past few years, I've helped you many times. Let's not talk about your schemes and schemes in the past, the help you've given me is enough for me to repay you for protecting me," Fang Cng Lan said calmly.
"It's not enough. I can't bear to kill you just like this, but I've changed my mind about that b * tch Zi Yan. I will take her back … As for you, I can forgive you, but you have no other choice. You must become my concubine!" A glint appeared in Yun Lai's eyes. He took another step forward, and the distance between him and Fang Cng Lan was now less than twenty feet.
"He's already gone. There's no need for you to keep trying to sound me out and explain yourself." A hint of ridicule appeared in Fang Cng Lan's eyes.
"Also, when it comes to me, there's no such thing as a must. I, Fang Cng Lan, would rather die and become your concubine than do something I don't want!"
Yun Lai narrowed his eyes and let out a cold harrumph. He lifted his foot and took another step forward, just as he was about to close in on Fang Cng Lan.
Yet the instant he lifted his foot, a bone-chilling and incredibly aloof voice suddenly came from behind him.
"She said she doesn't want to, didn't you hear her?"
The instant that voice appeared, Yun Lai turned around swiftly and saw a person who had appeared behind him at some unknown point of time. He was dressed in a long robe, had a head full of black hair, and had a handsome face, but his expression was as cold as winter.
Yun Lai narrowed his eyes and circulated his power of the middle stage of the Berserker Soul Realm through his entire body, causing the air around him to distort as if it had been torn apart. He stood there and stared at Su Ming, then suddenly laughed.
"It's rare for me to run into a powerful Berserker of the same generation. Since you think highly of this woman, then I've been too reckless." "If you like this work, then please come to Start Point and vote for me. Your support is my greatest motivation."
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